Blog track research at TREC.

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Title: Blog track research at TREC.
Authors: Macdonald, Craig1 craigm@dcs.gla.ac.uk, Santos, Rodrygo L.T.1 rodrygo@dcs.gla.ac.uk, Ounis, Iadh1 ounis@dcs.gla.ac.uk, Soboroff, Ian2 ian.soboro.@nist.gov
Source: SIGIR Forum. Jun2012, Vol. 46 Issue 1, p58-78. 21p.
Subjects: Text Retrieval Conference, Computer network resources, Blogs, Pollination, Empirical research, Research
Abstract: The article offers information on the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) blog track, which aims to explore information seeking behaviour in the blogosphere. It states that the Blog track has led to much research in this growing field and encapsulated cross-pollination from natural language research since its advent in TREC 2006. TREC is a forum tasked to facilitate empirical research into informational retrieval (IR) tasks.
Database: Engineering Source
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Abstract:The article offers information on the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) blog track, which aims to explore information seeking behaviour in the blogosphere. It states that the Blog track has led to much research in this growing field and encapsulated cross-pollination from natural language research since its advent in TREC 2006. TREC is a forum tasked to facilitate empirical research into informational retrieval (IR) tasks.
ISSN:01635840
DOI:10.1145/1842890.1842899